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Smart Cities

Modern cities need to evolve and become structured and interconnected ecosystems where thousands of IoT components of different domains (energy, health, mobility, buildings, water management, lighting, waste management, environment, etc.) are working together to support humans

Device virtualization and multi-tenancy

Fed4IoT device virtualization is the ability of sharing the same physical devices by many tenants, exposing them as sets of isolated virtual devices whose services may be different than what is offered by the real ones. This is a step further than current solutions for device abstraction via APIs

Evolutionary design

Fed4IoT follows an evolutionary approach by taking into account current emerging and promising European/Japanese interoperability models, both at the device/platform and at the information level

Project Overview

Smart city applications require pervasive and large-scale infrastructures, which include heterogeneous IoT devices and distributed information systems, thus posing interoperability and cost challenges. Interoperable solutions, exploiting fog/edge/cloud computing resources, are fundamental for fair competition, especially in public procurements, while costs savings are necessary to speed up the smart city innovation pace, by enabling more stakeholders to easily enter the market, especially SMEs.

The Fed4IoT project faces the interoperability issue, focusing on large scale environments and addressing the problem at different and synergic levels: device, platform and information. The goal of the project is “Federating IoT and Cloud Infrastructures to Provide Scalable and Interoperable Smart Cities Applications by introducing novel IoT virtualization technologies” and will be pursued through the following steps:

select/integrate/improve existing IoT and cloud platforms, including oneM2M, FIWARE and 5G ETSI MEC, so as to establish a reference interoperability solution;

use such reference solution to build up a pool of federated IoT and fog/edge/cloud resources;

integrate information coming from different IoT domains and other city sources;

integrate the system components

The project solutions will be technically validated by implementing four specific smart city applications, based on a federated EU/JP platform, deployed in real life systems in two EU and two JP cities.

The Fed4IoT consortium will also actively support standardization activities (ETSI, oneM2M, ITU, ISO, etc.) and EU/JP initiatives (e.g., AIOTI and ITAC), where consortium members are involved.

Project Data

The Fed4Iot project is an Research and Innovation Action jointly funded by the European Commission (grant agreement n° 814918) and Japan’s MIC